Pune Angels Network

Pick the right door

• To pitch investors: use the Submit your Pitch form on the website. PAN holds a Pitch Day every month.
• To get mentoring before you pitch: look at Ignite or Accelerate. Both are paid yearly programmes.
• To invest: angel membership is for SEBI-compliant individuals.

What PAN looks for

• Early-stage startups with a scalable model and a strong founding team.
• MVP or revenue stage for Ignite and Accelerate.
• Strong founder involvement and a clear market thesis.
• Sectors named on the site: technology, healthcare, fintech, consumer goods, EV, DeepTech, D2C, SaaS and climate.

Before you apply

• Have a pitch deck and financial model ready. The programmes include one free review of each.
• Ask by email at contact@puneangels.network whether equity or fees apply to your route before you commit.
• Check the registration link on the events page for the next Pitch Day, as dates on the site are mixed.

Pune Angels Network, also called PAN, is an angel investor network and startup enablement platform based in Baner, Pune. It is powered by Accelerate Angels & Venture Advisors Pvt. Ltd and connects early-stage startups with angel investors, mentors, CXOs and family offices across India.

How Pune Angels Network works for startups

PAN hosts a curated Pitch Day every month. A select cohort of startups pitches to active angel investors, family offices, VCs and strategic partners. Founders who want a slot use the Submit your Pitch form on the website. The network says it focuses on early-stage startups with scalable models and strong founding teams, in technology, healthcare, fintech and consumer goods, and its About page also names EV, DeepTech, D2C, SaaS and climate.

Startups can also join one of two paid yearly programmes. Ignite includes expert-led workshops and webinars, 2 one-to-one mentoring hours, one free pitch deck evaluation, one free financial model review and incorporation support. Accelerate is for MVP-ready, early revenue startups and includes 3 expert-led workshops and webinars, 3 one-to-one mentoring hours, investor connect, and the same free pitch deck and financial model reviews. Both programmes list the same eligibility: MVP or revenue stage, strong founder involvement and a clear market thesis. The site does not say whether PAN takes equity from these startups.

Open deals and investors

PAN lists open deals on its deals portal and on its home page, with startups across manufacturing technology, footwear, robotics, healthcare and AI. Investors join as angel members. The membership page describes the angel profile as SEBI-compliant individuals who commit to co-investing in curated deals with due diligence reports and investor-only events.

iAccelerate

iAccelerate is described as the founding platform behind PAN. It runs in parallel with PAN on incubation, strategic acceleration and venture enablement, and lists advisory services such as go-to-market, growth, capital raising, mergers and acquisitions, IPO advisory and investor branding.

Events

PAN runs pitch days, demo days, learning labs and sectoral roundtables, plus webinars on topics such as startup legal readiness. Its events page mixes old and new dates, so check the registration link for the current schedule.

Who runs it

The core team lists Rahul Jain as founder and CA Vishal Thakkar as co-founder, with CA Vinita Puntambekar and Chandrashekhar Sarda as partners. An operations team handles investor onboarding, startup screening and deal evaluation.

Location and contact

The office is at Baner one, 6th Floor, Pan card club road, Baner, Pune 411045. The general inbox is contact@puneangels.network. The site gives two different phone numbers, so confirm by email first.